Fastening device for buttons.



No. 666,97l. Patented lan. 29, I90l. J. NEVINS. & J. E. WHITE.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR BUTTONS.

(Application tiled Aug. 15, 1900.)

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A T/'OHNE YS y w W JW w/mfsses UNTTED STATES JOSEPH NEVINS A ND JOHN E.

PATENT OFFICE.

WHITE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FASTENING DEVICE FOR BUTTONS.

SPECIFCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 666,971, dated January29, 1901.

Application led August 15| 1900. Serial No. 26,964. (No model.)

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Be it known that we, JOSEPH NEvINs, a resident of the city of New York,borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, and JOHN E. WHITE, aresident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county ofNew York, State of New York, citizens of the United. States, haveinvented a new and Improved Fastening Device for Buttons, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a fastening device applicableto any shankbntton and which may be covered with the sameinaterial asthat from which the garment is made and itself employed as a button-as,for example, upon military uniforms, where it is advisable to concealthe bright buttons on occasion, which buttons the device is especiallydesigned to hold in place.

Another purpose of the invention is to provide a simple and effect-ivefastening device for shank-buttons so constructed that the button willnot be liable to work loose therefrom, which will be economic inmanufacture, and which may be quickly and conveniently applied andremoved.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specication, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through a garment, illustrating theapplication of the holders thereto for the purpose of retaining buttonsin position on said garment. Fig. 2 is an inner face or front view ofthe fastening device, illustrating the retaining-tongue of the device inposition to receive or release the shank of a button. Fig. 3 is a viewsimilar to Fig. 2, showing, however, a slight departure intheconstruction and the retainingtongue in position to prevent the shank ofa button from leaving a fastener. Fig. 4 is a section taken practicallyon the line 4 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a section taken substantially onthe line 5 5 of Fig. 3, and Fig. 6 is a plan View of the retaining-diskof the holder removed from the casing.

The fastening device consists, primarily, of a cap-casingA and aretaining-disk B, mounted to turn in the said cap-casing. The marginaldange of the cap-casing A is provided with spurs 11, adapted to be bentover the inner or front face of the cap-casing and over theretaining-disk B, preventing said disk from leaving the casing" and yetpermitting the disk to turn readily within the casing. Preferably at apoint opposite the spurs 1'1 a plate 12, of segmental form, is made.

integral with or is attached to the flange 10 of the cap-casing, andthis plate extends over the inner or front face of the capcasing andover the retaining-disk B. This plate 12 is a keeper-plate, as will behereinafter described, and preferably one end a is carried slightlydownward to a point below the outer edge of the flange 10 of the casingA, while at the opposite end of the said keeper-plate 12 a lug Ct isformed, which extends in direction of the retaining-disk B. Thisretaining-disk B is shown in detail in Fig. and is provided with acentral opening 13. At the central portion of this opening 13 a tongue14 is formed, the free end whereof is usually bent more or less indirection of the front or inner surface of the casing A, as is shown inFig. 4. At one side of the free end of the tongue 14 a slot 15 isproduced in the periphery of the retaining-disk B. This slot connectswith the opening 13 in the central portion of the retaining-disk, and atone wall of this slot 15 a lug 16 is formed on the front face of theretaining-disk.

In operation when the retaining-disk has been moved to the positionshown in Fig. 2, wherein the tongue 14 is parallel with the inner faceof the keeper-plate 12 and removed therefrom, the shank 17 of a button18 may be introduced upon the said tongue, and the tongue is then turnedto a locking position, to be hereinafter described. When the tongue 14is in the position shown in Fig. 2, in which it may receive or dischargethe shank of a button, the disk cannot be moved farther in the directionin which it was turned by reason of the plain wall of the slot 15 in theretaining-disk being brought in Contact with the depressed portion a ofthe keeper-plate 12; but if the lug 16 on the retaining-disk is made totravel beneath the keeper-plate 12 IOO the said lug 16 will answer thesame purpose as the plain wall of the slot 15, since the lug 16 willengage with the depressed portion a of the keeper-plate from a pointbeneath the latter, as shown in Fig. 2, and under such construction whenthe retaining-disk is turned in an opposite direction its movement willbe limited in such direction by the lug 16 on the retaining-diskengaging with the lug a' on the keeper-plate 12, as shown in Fig. 3, theplain wall of the slot 15 in this instance having been forced beneaththe depressed portiona of the keeper-plate. 1t will be understood,however, that when the plain wall of the slot 15 is used asa stop thelug 1G on the retaining-disk Will be used as a stop when the disk ismoved in an opposite direction by engagement with the outer face of thelug d on the keeper-plate 12.

Usually the keeper-plate 12 is provided with a central oijset section12, which has a recess in its under face, so that when the tongue of theretaining-disk has received the shank of a button and the disk is soturned as to carry the tongue beneath the keeperplate then the tonguesprings in the recess in the keeper-plate formed by the offset sectionl2n and will be locked in engagement with the keeper-plate to such anextent that it cannot be accidentally moved out from the plate. Vhen thetongue 14 of the retainingdisk is in engagement with the keeper-plate12, the button, the shank of which is upon the said tongue, will beprevented from leaving said tongue.

We desire it to be understood that the tongue 14 of theretaining-diskneed not necessarily pass beneath the keeper-plate, as illustrated; butwhen the tongue is in its locking position its free end may simplyclosely approach the inner edge of the said keeper-plate.

The cap-casing may be, and preferably is, covered with the same materialas thatof which the garment is made to which the button is to beapplied, so that the button, should occasion demand, may be placed atthe inside of the garment and the fastening device at the outside,providing a plain finish for the garment, the fastening devices being asubstitute for the buttons.

It will be observed that this fastening device is exceedingly simple,comprising but few parts, each of which may be stamped up from suitablematerial, and that one part readily turns in the other.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- 1. A fastening device for buttons, comprisinga cap-casing having a keeper, and a disk held to turn in the saidcasing, provided with a tongue adapted to receive the shank of abutton,which tongue is brought into locking position when its free endis adjacent to the said keeper.

2. A fastening device for buttons, comprising a cap-casing, guidedevices and a keeper, and a retaining-disk held to turn beneath the saidkeeper and guide devices, which retaining-disk is provided with aspring-tongue whose free end in the locking position of the device isbrought in close proximity to the keeper, as described.

3. A fastening device for buttons, comprising a cap-casing having spursat its margin, and an inwardly-extending keeper, a retaining-disk heldto turn in the said cap-casing and provided with a tongue arranged topass through the shank of a button, which tongue when the device is inlocking position, closely approaches the said keeper, and means,substantially as described, for limiting the movement of theretaining-disk in one or the other direction.

4. In a fastening device for buttons, the combination, with a cap-casinghaving inwardly-extending marginal guides, and an inwardly extendingmarginal keeper provided with a depression in its under face, of aretaining-disk mounted to turn in the capcasing beneath the said guidesand the keeper, the said retaining-disk having a central opening and atongue at the central portion of the said opening, which tongue in oneposition of the retaining-disk passes beneath the keeper and enters thedepression therein, substantially as described.

5. In a fastening' device for buttons, the combination, with acap-casing having inwardly-extending marginal guides, and aninwardly-extending marginal keeperprovided with a depression in itsunder face, of a retaining-disk mounted to turn in the said capcasingbeneath said guides and the keeper, the said retaining-disk having acentral opening anda tongue at the central portion of said opening,which tongue, in one position of the retaining disk, passes beneath thekeeper and enters the depression therein, and stop devices formed partlyon the keeper and partly on the retaining-disk, which stop devices serveto limit the movements of the said retaining-disk in one or the otherdirection, for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof:` we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOSEPH NEVINS. JOHN E. WHITE.

Witnesses:

EVERARD BOLTON MARSHALL, ALFRED H. DAVIS.

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